Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis Graphics Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, College Park The increasing scale and availability of digital data provides an extraordinary resource for informing public policy, scientific discovery, business strategy, and even our personal lives. Visualization provides a powerful means of making sense of data. The goal of this article is to assist designers, researchers, professional analysts, procurement officers, educators, and students in evaluating and creating visual analysis tools. Our focus on interactive elements presumes a basic familiarity with visualization design. Within each branch of the taxonomy presented here, we describe example systems that exhibit useful interaction techniques. To enable analysts to explore large data sets involving varied data types (e.g., multivariate, geospatial, textual, temporal, networked), flexible visual analysis tools must provide appropriate controls for specifying the data and views of interest. 1. 2. 3.
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JavaScript Kit- Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS tutorials and over 400+ free JavaScripts! [nytlabs] OASIS Directed graph A directed graph. (sometimes ) of:[1] A digraph is called "simple" if it has no loops, and no multiple arcs (arcs with same starting and ending nodes). A directed multigraph, in which the arcs constitute a multiset, rather than a set, of ordered pairs of vertices may have loops (that is, "self-loops" with same starting and ending node) and multiple arcs. Basic terminology[edit] An arc is considered to be directed from to is called the head and is called the tail of the arc; is said to be a direct successor of , and is said to be a direct predecessor of to , then is said to be a successor of is said to be a predecessor of . is called the arc inverted. A weighted digraph is a digraph with weights assigned to its arcs, similar to a weighted graph. is the number of arcs from node i to node j, and the diagonal entry is the number of loops at node i. Another matrix representation for a digraph is its incidence matrix. See Glossary of graph theory#Direction for more definitions. Indegree and outdegree[edit]
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What Visualization Tool/Software Should You Use? – Getting Started Are you looking to get into data visualization, but don't quite know where to begin? With all of the available tools to help you visualize data, it can be confusing where to start. The good news is, well, that there are a lot of (free) available tools out there to help you get started. It's just a matter of deciding which one suits you best. This is a guide to help you figure that out. But before we get into what you should use, a couple of questions. What data are you looking at? Hopefully you already have a dataset that you're interested in. There are lots of places on the Web to find data. The above is a very small subset of what's available. Got your data? What's the purpose of your visualization? The next step is to figure out you're trying to do with your visualization. Again, what you decide here will affect what tool you should use. What Visualization Software to Use Now that you have the answers to those two questions in mind, we can make a decision on what will work best for you.
dragDrop02 : Built with Processing Still getting to grips with OOP...This is just a little experiment with inheritance. The 'Base' classes 'BaseDragger' and 'BaseTarget' are not intended to be instantiated directly. I discovered that the way to enforce this was to declare them as abstract, (it's not possible to instantiate an object of an abstract class). However I also wanted to enforce the implementation of certain methods in child classes and initially thought the way to achieve this was to also define an Interface; which would mean both extending the Base class and implementing the Interface. However it turns out another advantage of abstract classes is that you can declare abstract methods which must be implemented in the child classes. I've also managed to streamline the code and moved some of the generic methods from child classes into the Base classes, as well as implementing RectDragger and ImgDragger classes. For what it's worth the circle and square draggable objects can sit in any of the rectangular targets.
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Ruby-Processing | Stewdio What is Ruby? What is Processing? Processing is a Java-based programming framework created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas while they were studying under John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab back in 2001. (Java itself is of a similar vintage to Ruby—1995—but it may “feel older” because of its lineage and its greater circulation.) Processing is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. Processing boasts a healthy development community with a wealth of helpful libraries and code examples, all available for free. Ok. Install Ruby-Processing 1. 2. 3. Load the Code Now that you have Ruby-Processing installed (aka RP5 for short) it’s time to write a program and run it. Let’s spin some 3D cubes! 1. 2. 3. Conclusions You have Ruby-Processing installed. Again, I would direct you to the Processing Language API which lists all of the Processing commands. And one last thing. Ok.
…/… Archive for …/… Patrik Schumacher on Art &/vs Architecture Extract from Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects) recent argumentation published on Face Book that followed the release of Architecture Biennale program: Once more on the distinction and relation between art and architecture: Historically painting, sculpture and architecture were a continuous practice engaged in by the same protagonists (Michelangelo, Rafael, Bernini etc.) for a unified purpose. Why am I insisting on the sharp distinction of contemporary art and architecture? The framing communications that architects provide are attributed to the host institutions that invite participants into their spaces and not to the architects. Patrik Schumacher, March 2014 101020_MF @Boston | GSD Midterm review Marc Fornes was kindly invited by Achim Menges for the midterm review of his studio at Harvard/GSD. 100616_MF Jury @REPEAT / TexFab The winning entry will be built , exhibited and subsequently given to the winner.
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